Sir T. B RAMSDONasked the Secretary of State for War if, in view of the fact that £34,245 is expended on vocational training, he will give directions for a Report to be issued, after collaboration with the Admiralty Departments, on the three years' work of the inter-Departmental Committee set up in 1921 for the placing of ex-professional sailors and 750W soldiers; and, if not, will he inform the House of his objections to the issue of Report?
§ Mr. WALSHI understand that the Committee may be expected to make an interim report in the course of the next few months, when I will consider the question of publication, in consultation with the other Departments concerned. I would point out that the Committee is not an executive Committee dealing with individual cases. Its terms of reference are
To consider generally, and with special relation to educational schemes which may be operative in the Services, the most suitable machinery, local and central, for promoting the interest of professional sailors, soldiers and airmen after the termination of their service, including the steps necessary to secure openings for them in civil employment.